[Python-Dev] Encouraging developers

[Collin Winter]

On 3/5/07, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote:
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> One problem may be that there *aren't* maintainers for various
> subsystems; various people have contributed bugfixes and patches for,
> say, urllib, but I have no idea what single person I would go to for a
> problem.
>
> Is it worth creating a wiki page listing people and the modules they're
> responsible for?  Or does something like this already exist?

I'd rather have this kind of ownership information attached to the
individual module documentation, so interested parties don't have to
go hunting around in the wiki for it.

It would also be helpful to have some loose guidelines/requirements
for how to become a module maintainer (e.g., "we're looking for the
following traits...").

Collin Winter